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Creator Alex Hall on March 24

If you've been following our updates via Facebook, Kickstarter, and Twitter you'll know that we've run into a few production issues and have had a few missteps along the course of the production of the film. I hate making this excuse, but I ask that you please keep in mind that I am a 22 year old independent filmmaker undertaking a grandiose project on a scale of which I have never done before. I have graciously been given an opportunity to undertake my dream project, but with it comes the baggage of a lot of new and foreign things and obstacles for me (both in the business sense and the extreme levels of stress and anxiety that come with this kind of responsibility). There are multiple facets and layers of working on a project this extensive that dwarf when I was writing and directing the short films for competitions. It's hard. Like, really hard. But we're going to get there.

We ran into some casting issues and what seemed like half a dozen potholes along the way - some my fault, some out of my control, and some completely on the shoulders of individuals I will not name publicly. These all caused the production to be delayed. The overly optimistic November deadline was on one bred from naivety and the assumption that I could have a similar turnaround time as some of the other (admittedly older and more experienced) filmmakers I knew. These and the production missteps are things that I still beat myself up over knowing that if I had been more familiar and experienced with making a full length feature these might have been avoided. But that's how you learn, and you take mistakes as they come and grow from them. I'll admit there were a few times where I wanted to vocalize my frustrations, but ultimately came to the conclusion that it just simply wouldn't be very professional for me to go off on a tirade on the internet and point fingers and rant. It would ultimately accomplish nothing, and I've learned the setbacks that happen are just simply how things go sometimes when you try to put together a project like this. But more importantly, that's also how you learn. I've learned a lot.

I take full responsibility for the delay and any inconvenience that it might have caused you. Believe me, I wish I could have had given you that DVD on time and be able to see how the world receives it. As for promotional materials and supplements, we're keeping a lot of things close to the vest for now (such as the journal updates on the website by "Eric") and we have another update coming later this month. In regards to the trailer, to be completely honest, I've been toying with the idea of even releasing a traditional trailer at all when the movie gets closer to be released (instead something more in the vein of the later short videos for the Jadusable series). I'm interested in doing things a little differently with Methods (and this is probably the only chance I'll get to do these kinds of things before I'll have investors to please, corporate negociations, quotas to meet, etc. in my future films) because it is being released for free, after all.

We are making forward progress, it is indeed taking longer than we originally projected, and again I apologize. I definitely encourage you to keep up to date on the Facebook and Twitter accounts (We just got one of the prototype movie posters for the backer rewards back from production earlier this week and put pictures up - check it out!) to stay "in-the-know".

If you have any more questions, I encourage you to send me a PM on here or via Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/alexanderdhall

Creator Alex Hall on December 23

Yep, in fact just recently there was an update on the Methods Twitter account several days ago and a few brief updates during the stream a few weeks back on the Twitch.tv Brogamers channel. It's been busy, but long story short I'm currently working on putting out a substantial update for the holiday season about the progress. The video will be going up on the Jadusable Youtube channel, and will coincide with an update on this Kickstarter page as well linking the video. Backer rewards are in the process of being shuffled out over the course of the coming months - I'm working with a graphic designer to get the concept art just right before we put it out. Stay tuned everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/Jadusable